We performed a comparison between vCloud Director and VMware Aria Operations based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Working with VMware has supported us especially in terms of building a very powerful cloud for our customers."
"The stability of the product is better than just 'good.'"
"What I found most valuable in vCloud Director is the multi-tenancy."
"We consider it intuitive and user-friendly. It offers a variety of functions for the customer to control the networking, virtual workloads, disk snapshots, and all of vSphere's core features."
"I have found the solution scales well."
"vCloud Director is a stable solution."
"The solution has more capabilities than OpenStack and integrates well with NSX and vCenter."
"Their technical support is great. We had some difficult cases and they were able to solve them in a timely manner."
"It helped troubleshooting issues with storms of software data that cost a lot of IO."
"We can detect when, for example, one host is getting hit by a lot of VMs and we can take care of that host. It enables us to add more memory, more CPU, or maybe we just replace the host."
"It removes the guess work. It gives me real data and analysis in a very user-friendly way that I can show to my management without going deep into numbers."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to get a view of our entire environment in a single pane of glass. We're a very large company, so going from one interface to another to troubleshoot an issue, or even just to get capacity information, is time-consuming and not efficient. Being able to go to one place and get that information is very helpful."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. It is very intuitive to install."
"When there is an issue at the disk level in vSAN, vROps gives us an alarm that the issue is happening on particular disks. Other solutions cannot give this type of alert for vCenter. Even vCenter cannot give that type of information."
"I have found the backup extremely useful in my use cases."
"Through the trending analysis that we can do, it allowed us to quickly and easily right-size the capacity from a cluster."
"It could be more stable. We have had issues with multiple different versions."
"Initially, the setup was complex."
"In the next release, we would like to see improvements with the pricing. It could be reduced."
"The reason we moved to Microsoft Intune was because of the license cost of VMware. It's very expensive."
"Lacking additional services reduces the level of cloud integration companies just love with Amazon and Azure."
"Technical support needs to improve its skills and respond to queries faster."
"This solution could improve by adding root cause analysis."
"vCloud Director should improve by having support with other cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure and Google cloud."
"We had some problems with updating it. The two times that we upgraded vRealize Operations Manager, we lost all our data."
"The UI interface of the application has been stagnant for a long time."
"They should have more automation features for database management."
"The descriptions are not quite as user-friendly as I would like but, for the most, it's part pretty user-friendly. They could also improve on the badging nomenclature they have for batches in the system, for determining the health of a certain aspect of the systems."
"We are looking to optimize all the parts. For example, vCenter can be fully deployed automatically, which is not the case with vROps. We can click some next buttons to integrate vCenter and would like these type of features for vROps, if possible."
"It wasn't exactly proactive. It was supposed to, but there were a lot of delays. It could also be because of our infrastructure and the way our network was set up. If vROps could be more proactive, that would be nice. It is nice to have the information beforehand, but when there is downtime, it takes a lot of time for us to be able to see an issue in real-time, which becomes a bit challenging. If there is a way to improve the data collection for the whole vCenter that would be nice because data collection takes a lot of time."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to the integration with Active Directory. Sometimes I need to log in to the application using my Active Directory account, instead of using the regular admin for vRealize Operations. If I want to deploy this tool to more users, I need that."
"The what-if analysis section is not very advanced and there is a lot of room for improvement."
vCloud Director is ranked 5th in Cloud Management with 61 reviews while VMware Aria Operations is ranked 2nd in Cloud Management with 360 reviews. vCloud Director is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of vCloud Director writes "Offers flexibility of handling workloads and good scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations writes "It has good stability, but the report-generating feature needs improvement". vCloud Director is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM), Morpheus, CloudStack and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whereas VMware Aria Operations is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware vSphere, IBM Turbonomic, Veeam ONE and CloudPhysics. See our VMware Aria Operations vs. vCloud Director report.
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